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Grab A Torch and Your Courage and Dare to be Different

Halloween is perhaps the spookiest night on Melbourne's calendar. You can spend it trick or treating in your neighbourhood or you can step out of your comfort zone and join the Melbourne General Cemetery Halloween Night Tour.

It is hard not to believe in ghosts on this bucket list worthy tour where things go bump in the night. But truly, it's just Melbourne's wildlife, not the paranormal. Right?

As in other parts of Melbourne bats are about in the cemetery. These are no Halloween props. They are grey-headed flying foxes, which weighing in at just over 1kg are the second largest species of bat in Australia. The bats are nocturnal and fly after dark in search of nectar, fruit and pollen.

The Melbourne General Cemetery was established in 1852 and received its first burial the following year. It was the first of Victoria's cemeteries to be designed like a public park. Paths curve and transverse separate religious areas, gate lodges, rotundas, chapels, and landscaped areas with trees and shrubbery.

Over 300,000 burials have been made on the 43 hectare site. Amongst those interred here are explorers Burke and Wills, Prime Ministers Sir Robert Menzies, Sir John Gorton and James Scullin, Governor General Sir Isaac Isaacs, Governor Sir Charles Hotham, Bunurung Aboriginal Tribal Leader, Derrimut, and author Marcus Clarke.

Your guide will not only give you the Who's Who in the cemetery, but will recount tales both of tragedy and of scandal. Their knowledge extends beyond the famous to the everyday people who rest forever in these grounds. Money raised from the tours is applied to the maintenance of the cemetery to ensure its cultural and historic significance can be preserved for future generations.

Tours run on Monday the 31st October, 2016. A Special Children's Halloween Tour runs at 7.00pm. Other tours commence at 7.20pm, 7.35pm, 7.50pm, 8.05pm, 8.20pm, 8.35pm, 8.50pm, 9.05pm and 9.20pm.

Refunds are not available and tours will go ahead regardless of weather.

What else is included?

Tea/coffee/water/cordial and biscuits are available before or after your tour.

Can SMCT change the time/date of tour?

Please SMCT reserves the right to change the time and/or date of the tour booked at its discretion.SMCT will provide notice of any change - so please ensure all of your details are correct at the time of booking.